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[โ€“] biotin7@sopuli.xyz 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

American exceptionalism (& imperialism) at it's finest

[โ€“] Sunshine@piefed.ca 4 points 4 days ago

Theyโ€™re really proving it in the comments. Maga loves imperial the most.

[โ€“] Cassanderer@thelemmy.club 5 points 4 days ago (9 children)

I want to prefer imperial, but using fractions for tools is super fucking annoying when millimeters are easy, and then stores giving me price per ounce in the store, other products price per pound making me do the fucking Mental Math multiplying times 16 pisses me off.

Fractions are a stupid way to measure small distances, and ounces are a stupid way to measure it small amounts of weight.

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[โ€“] DahGangalang@infosec.pub 4 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I have a chip on my shoulder about the metric system as it appears in sci-fi writing.

It drives me nuts that in books like The Expanse (and I think the Bobiverse and Andy Wier's works) that the writer will call distances in "thousands/millions of kilometers".

Really feels more reasonable to just go full send and call them megameters and gigameters, but maybe that's just my American non-metric mind trying to force full use of a system in a way those born to it don't actually do.

Anyway, thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

[โ€“] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago

It's certainly a good observation. I would agree that a more practical way of measuring the vast distances is to up the scale. Giga, Terra, whatever.

A kilometer in space is nothing. It must be the equivalent of saying "it's only a million millimeter drive away"

[โ€“] Cassanderer@thelemmy.club 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Megameters just is fun to say, we could make it a thing, if enough use it it becomes proper.

Iโ€™m onboard. Letโ€™s get rid of the tonne also. Megagram sounds way cooler.

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[โ€“] thelittleerik@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Amerifats cant get over their imperialist england brain to work in tandem with rest of the world. It creates just enough division and tribality between the world the US to justify its colonial nature and settlement enterprise in the americas.

You cant bury your disgusting history.

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